Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 14 July 2026.
John Glen
Conservative, Salisbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in each of the past three financial years, how much Housing Benefit has been paid to providers of Supported Accommodation.
Stephen Timms
The Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions, Minister for Equalities (Department for Education)
The Department's Benefit Expenditure and Caseload outturn and forecast tables can be found in the ‘Housing Benefits’ sheet here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2026.
Equivalent estimates are not available for earlier years due to historical data quality issues in the recording of supported accommodation cases.
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